Macreons

The island of the Macreons. Great Britain. The word is Greek,
and means long-lived. Rabelais describes the persecutions of the
reformers as a terrible storm at sea, in which Pantagruel and his fleet
were
tempest-tossed, but contrived to enter one of the harbours of Great
Britain, an island called “Long life,” because no one was put to death
there for his religious opinions. This island was full of antique
ruins, relics of decayed popery and ancient superstitions.